Shakespearian
Literary Devices
Characters
Quotes
Major Events
100

Shakespeare's first name.

What is "William?"

100
A question asked to make a point rather than invoke an answer.

What is "rhetorical question?"

100

Eats hot coals after hearing that Antony and Octavius have risen to power.

Who is Portia?

100

 "Et tu, Brute?"

Who is Caesar?

100

The day the soothsayer tells Caesar to beware of.

What is the Ides of March?

200

Shakespeare's theatre

What is The Globe?
200

The protagonist of a tragedy.

What is Tragic hero?

200

Tries to warn Caesar about the conspiracy through a letter.

Who is Artemidorus?

200

"This was the noblest Roman of them all."

Who is Antony?

200
Has a soliloquy in which he convinces himself why Caesar should be assassinated.

Who is Brutus?

300

Shakespeare's wife

Who is Anne Hathaway?

300

When a character speaks directly to the audience so other characters on stage do not hear them

What is an aside?

300

DAILY DOUBLE!

Has a dream about Caesar's statue pouring out blood.

Who is Calphurnia?

300
"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars."
Who is Cassius?
300

The first person that the crowd kills after being moved by Antony's speech.

Who is Cinna the Poet?

400

A line of verse with ten syllables, alternating unstressed and stressed.

What is iambic pentameter?

400

A monologue in which a character speaks their inner thoughts out loud so the audience can hear.

What is soliloquy?

400

The first person to stab Caesar.

Who is Casca?

400
"Friends, Romans, Countrymen. Lend me your Ears."

Who is Antony?

400

The outcome of the sacrifice that Julius Caesar asked his priests to perform.

What is a beast with no heart?

500

The amount of lines a Sonnet has.

What is 14?

500

A literary device in which an author repeats similar grammar structure to show that two or more ideas have similar importance

What is parallel structure or parallelism?

500

The third member of the triumvirate formed by Antony and Octavius.

Who is Lepidus?

500

DAILY DOUBLE!

"I killed thee with half so good a will."

Who is Brutus?

500

The greek words for the persuasion techniques used to persuade the crowds (there are 3)

What is Pathos, Logos, Ethos